The month of October dawns a new era of professional swimming, bringing the inaugural International Swimming League (ISL) season to fruition. Four ISL meets are set to take place across the United States and Europe, bringing some of the sport’s biggest stars into the spotlight in an unprecedented way.
Mark your schedules for the various additional meets also ready to make some headlines this month.
Let me know in the comments of any meets I may have missed.
International Meets – October 2019
10/01 – 10/05 New Zealand Short Course National Championships
10/04 – 10/06 FINA Swimming World Cup #4 (Budapest)
10/04 – 10/06 2019 Australian State Teams Championships
10/05 – 10/06 ISL Meet in Indianapolis, IN (Cali Condors, DC Trident, Aqua Centurions, Energy Standard)
10/11 – 10/13 FINA Swimming World Cup #5 (Berlin)
10/12 – 10/13 ISL Meet in Naples, Italy (Cali Condors, DC Trident, Aqua Centurions, Energy Standard)
10/12 – 10/13 Aura Open Cup (Estonia)
10/18 – 10/20 2019 Plzenské Sprinty (Czech Republic)
10/18 – 10/20 Meeting de Saint Dizier Short Course (France)
10/18 – 10/19 Martinez Cup (Amsterdam)
10/18 – 10/27 CSIM World Games 2019 (Military World Games, Wuhan, China)
10/19 – 10/20 2019 Manchester International Swim Meet
10/19 – 10/20 ISL Meet in Lewisville, Texas (LA Current, NY Breakers, Team Iron, London Roar)
10/19 – 10/20 37° International Swimming Meeting “Enrico Meroni” & 36° Coppa Sprinter “Amici Nuoto Riva” (Italy)
10/20 – 10/23 Taiwan National Games
10/24 – 10/26 2019 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships
10/25 – 10/27 Internationales Schwinfestival (ISF) – Aachen
10/26 – 10/27 ISL Meet in Budapest, Hungary (LA Current, NY Breakers, Team Iron, London Roar)
10/26 – 10/27 Memorial Louis Antheunis (Belgium)
10/26 – 10/27 Internationales Oktober-Meeting (Switzerland)
10/26 – 10/27 61st Japanese Championships (SCM)
With all due respect to the host of the Internationales Oktober-Meeting in Allschwil (Switzerland) but this probably shouldn’t be listed – other than the name there isn’t anything international or high level to the competition.
However, you might want to add the 7th World Military Games in Wuhan (China) to the list above.
Thanks for the reminder of Military Games, Nico!
Swimswam, please stop photoshopping Adam P’s head onto a photo of my body.
Thank you.
😉
Can someone please tell me what Peaty’s best 2BR is
2:08.34
2:08.34 in LCM, 2:07.34 in SCM. LCM done in April 2015 at the British Championships, SCM done in December of 2017 at the European Short Course Championships.
His time in the 200 came at the same meet where he first dipped under 58 in the 100 breast (57.92). He’s since been a second faster in the 100, extrapolate at your own peril 😲
Any word on why he hasn’t added 200BR to his traditional line-up? Lack of training?
He’s a sprint breaststroker, probably doesn’t want to sacrifice speed for endurance. Can’t say I blame him, 200 LCM breastroke is not a fun race 🙂
Grethe won’t like all that travelling .